Saturday, October 4th, 2008
Extraordinary, Phasntasmatic and Fetishistic
Seeing a place through a singular lense of a person, especially the infamous and original designer Jean-Paul Gaultier, is to uncover a wholly different city. The New York Time article ‘Fashionista Paris‘ was fascinating and it conjured up for me, another Paris, than the one I know. It reminded me how a place, a memory, [...]
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
A city’s best-kept secret by Conde Nast Traveler
Means that it’s no longer a best-kept secret. Oh well! This particular secret has already been found as it is right next to our place on Rue Vaugirard. Sadaharu Aoki, the pastry wizard. The French are passionate connoisseurs of patisseries. Really, only in Paris, do people line up around the corner for gateaus. So, it’s [...]
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
Velib rental bikes update
They are grey, ugly, and heavy, but there is nothing like like a ride down an empty Paris street in August to invigorate the soul and make you feel like you’re in another age or time. … The stations are only some 300 yards apart, and there are four times as many as there are subway stations, even in a city so well served by its metro system.
…Cost of the bikes, which are made in Hungary, is $3460 3 People have died in Velib accidents, a 7% increase over a year ago, but bike ridership is up 24% .
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Saturday, June 14th, 2008
Eating Out with Kids
This is the time of the year when our friends call us for tips on travel, especially on eating out with kids. Basically how to continue to have some semblance of the good life they used to have B.C. (before children). Especially for the foodies. It is possible. It’s not true that children are second [...]
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Paris with Kids books
I don’t see anything new in them, but they do give quick ideas for an outing First, published by Fodors, is Around Paris with Kids: 68 Great Things to Do Together …. This set might be more valuable to spread out on the table to involve kids in choosing what to do for the day’s outings.
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
Birth of ‘Let’s Go, Paris’ pour les enfants…
Also, she and I developed a little ritual, to provide her with photos and information to get her excited about the voyage she was about to undertake. And then, I started to get calls from friends and strangers who had heard about my travels with my baby to get tips about traveling to distant lands, with different systems, logic, with little kids. … My first business trip back after my maternity leave was to Toronto, Canada, and I had to figure out quickly, all of the tricks of traveling around the world with a little baby.
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Thursday, May 24th, 2007
Top 10 things to do in Paris for Kids
1. Ride a carrousel – I can think of four carrousels in Paris right off the bat. It’s a kids paradise for carrousels. Some are clunky, just better than super-market level affairs (Square de Boucicaut near the Bon Marche), others are majestic in their “emplacement” (across the street from the Eiffel Tower), and others melancholy, like the one in the Tuilleries, which wouldn’t surprise me if it played Les Feuilles Mortes (Autumn Leaves) in the calliope version.
